Surgery Waits

Kidney drainage stent insertion waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

The median wait for kidney drainage stent insertion at Royal North Shore Hospital in 2024–25 is not published by the source (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Ureteric stent - insertion of". This public hospital is in the St Leonards area of New South Wales.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Ureteric stent - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal North Shore Hospitalnot publishednot publishednot published
New South Wales (all public hospitals)28 days0.5%1611 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)24 days0.6%2982 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Royal North Shore Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for ureteric stent - insertion of by financial year at Royal North Shore Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal North Shore Hospital 18NSW 28Australia 24
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Ureteric stent - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal North Shore Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published1517
2017–18982121
2018–19not published2722
2019–20not published2421
2020–212172722
2021–22182221
2022–23not published2724
2023–24not published2826
2024–25not published2824

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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